Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A 1,400-year-old iron hammer and nails from the Byzantine period have been unearthed according to the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) archaeologists.
The findings were located by an Israeli family from Tur’an in Lower Galilee, who took part in the dig at Usha, and was among many other volunteers working at the digging site.
“About 20 iron hammers are registered in the Israel Antiquities Authority records, only six of them from the Byzantine period,” said Yair Amitzur and Eyad Bisharat, directors of the excavation on behalf of IAA, in a statement.
“We already knew that the Usha settlers extensively manufactured glass vessels, since we found many wine glasses and glass lamps together with glass lumps that were the raw material; the discovery of the hammer, the nails and the adjacent iron slag teaches us that they also produced iron tools at the site.”
Based on earlier discoveries of wine goblets and raw glass chunks, the locals were involved in the manufacture of glassware. Now, it is known that the residents were also producing iron tools.
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